Organisational agility and its perceived benefits from Australian perspectives
Keywords:
agility, organisational agility, perceived benefitsAbstract
Organisational agility helps businesses to sustain their competitive advantage and contributes to business success. It accelerates shared knowledge and learning processes that meet the pace of rapid environmental change. Despite the awareness of agile application, perceived benefits about significant characteristics of organisational agility have not been fully investigated.
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